...or what shouldn't be: A woman who attended one of the Echo Park Historical Society* walking tours recently emailed a set of poignant photographs she took of the houses the LAUSD would like to demolish on the south-western edge of Echo Park.

9A, as you may recall, is the site, named by the LAUSD where said agency seized the homes of over 200 people in an effort to build a school for pupils who don't exist, as falling enrollment in area schools has proved. Samuel Beckett would have loved it. The people who lost their homes don't think it's funny.

In December the LAUSD was ordered by the court to conduct an environmental impact review. It now appears the staff of David Tokofsky are trying to rush the review through before this summer, when Tokofsky steps down as board member of the LAUSD's fifth district. The school, after all, is his baby.

As for a building already torn down, it's 860 Echo Park Avenue. Not 850.

And, for the record: the photograph of 860 Echo Park Ave., which has been credited in two links to Chicken Corner, is in fact a Martin Cox photo.

Curbed LA linked to Chicken Corner a couple of days ago, with interest in the missing building at 860 Echo Park Avenue. A lively -- and interesting -- 33-response conversation/insult fest about density planning and urban transportation followed.

Journalist/Intersections blogger Daniel Hernandez linked to Chicken Corner with memories of gang-bangers using the apartment building's walkway as a shortcut.

*(Disclosure: I am on the board of the Echo Park Historical Society.)